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Jared vs Jarret

American parents have registered 207,119 Jareds since 1880, against 3,431 Jarrets. Jared is still ahead, with 804 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jared against Jarret, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jared Jarret

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Jared has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1881 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1946, when Jared had 44 and Jarret had 5.

Side by side

  Jared Jarret
Total US births 207,1193,431
Most in one year 7,478136
Babies in 2025 804under 5
Estimated living today 197,0003,300
Median age today 3334
Peak year 19981990
Best rank 51st boys881st boys
Rank in 2025 396thunranked
First recorded 18811946
Girls / boys 768 / 206,3510 / 3,431

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Jared Jarret
England and Wales 2,6904

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jared and Jarret.